Seeds from Foxglove Botanicals
Living on her own on an isolated farm, Jill Williams can entertain herself. It can often seem not worth the effort to travel her long driveway that meanders through the majestic Baxter Creek pine plantation off Zion Line to make it to civilization when the weather is bad, so when the pandemic hit, Jill…
Five Things I Have Learned from a Farmer
Working on a farm is not only a lesson in hard work, it is a lesson in life. Here are the top 5 lessons I have learned from farmers. Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life: There’s a reason farming is a lifelong career – farming is not…
Trout Unlimited is Completing an eDNA Study on Squirrel Creek
If you have used an ancestry kit, or watched a favorite crime series, you know that the use of DNA (or deoxyribonucleic acid) is more mainstream today than it was 20 years ago. DNA is the set of biological instructions unique to every organism. Although DNA’s chemical structure is the same for all organisms,…
Common Ground – August 2021
“August’s harvest is rich, with all the heat-loving crops coming into full productivity…” Bob Thomson, The New Victory Garden I’m choosing to be positive about the garden in August. The trials of the spring with its late snow and frozen tomatoes have been consigned to the past. I have almost but not quite forgotten…
Golden Days
The rains following the earlier hot, dry weather have been an absolute blessing for the trees, especially since they were so stressed by the Gypsy Moth caterpillars. In fact the new leaves that have sprung out on the trees have made me think we were having a second spring. The following column originally appeared…
Local Writer Secures Award for New Novel
Dennis Vanderspek of Millbrook has won the 2021 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel for his wonderful novel A Is for Everyone! From among the many dozens of delightful books submitted for the contest, Vanderspek’s novel eventually rose to the top. In his encomium for the novel, contest judge Derek Pell, author of Naked…